JUDGE WHITTEMORE GETS IT RIGHT

Nineteen judges in Florida, three turn-downs from the Supreme Court, and now a Federal District Court judge in Tampa have refused to order the feeding tubes for Terri Schiavo to be reinserted.  Now it's off to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. 

Yes .. I know that Hannity had some doctor on the air last night who had been nominated for a Nobel Prize.  Yes, I know that this particular doctor says that Terri Schiavo could possibly walk again.  His name is Hammensfahr, and he was discussing at length in the Florida Circuit Court's order to remove her feeding tubes.

First .. remember that Hammensfahr was selected by Terri's parents.   You must know that they would search far and wide until they found a doctor who would say the things that they wanted him to say.  In court Hammensfahr testified that he felt that he was able to get Terri Schiavo to repeatedly respond to his command.  When the judge was present Hammensfahr gave 105 commands to Schiavo.  Then Bob Schindler, Terri's father, gave an additional 6 commands.  Hammensfahr then asked Terri 61 questions.  Then Mr. Schindler asked another 11 questions.  The judge observed the entire procedure and said that he "... saw few actions that could be considered responsive to either those commands or those questions."  Over 180 questions and commands, and "few actions" in response.  At one point Dr. Hammensfahr testified that Terri squeezed his fingers on command.  The problem was that there was a video being taken of her hand at that moment.  The video showed nothing .. and there was no reaction from Dr. Hammensfahr to indicate that she had responded.

Another doctor, Dr. Maxfield, testified that even a patient in a persistent vegetative state will track a moving object with their eyes on occasion.  He also testified that smiling can be nothing more than a automatic reflex to some sort of stimulus.  Maxfield was a doctor chosen by the Shindlers. 

A Gallup poll was released this morning.  Fifty six percent of Americans feel that Terri Schiavo's feeding tube should be removed.  When that question is couched in terms of the person being artificially fed being your spouse, the figure went up to 61%. 

Judge Whittemore has essentially ruled that all of the sides with an interest in this case have been heard, the experts have been heard, and the state courts made a decision .. and he sees no reason that a federal court should review those rulings.

One of the tragedies here is that people who have no real interest in Terri Schiavo as a person are perfectly willing to seize her and brutalize her in order to further their own political and/or religious agenda. 

Now ... how about some email?

RECORD EMAIL

I would estimate that The Neal Boortz Show has received over 2000 emails in the last 24 hours on the Terri Schiavo matter.  Here's just a sampling without any spelling corrections or editions.  Pick on their spelling for a change.

• I was an avid listener to your radio show but after today and remarks about the Republicans and announcing you are a libertarian  I will not listen to you EVER again. You are a jerk. (no name)
   
• The young man refused to call you a nazi, but I do think you sound alot like one.  Bottome line You and will decide the value of a human life based on what you deam to be a good life verss a bad life without looking uo at the maker. As for her brain activity, as a nurse I can tel you that the health  care profession knows very little about the human brain and is truly suuject to personal opinoins and political slants.  YOU think you are qualified to put a orice/value on human life, so you are a nazi.. J.Gan, R.N. Jacqueline Gan. (We didn't mess with her spelling.)
   
• Mr. Boortz:  Just wanted to let you know I will no longer be listening to your show nor will I be visiting your website.  You are entitled to your opinion regarding Terry Schiavo, and I am entitled to mine. This is the so-called last straw for me, the second -to-last was your opinion of smokers.  By the way, have you ever smoked or been addicted to anything? (other than your own ego?)  Mike Delehanty
   
• I listen to you show from 9 pm until midnight.  I was listening tonight when the man from FL called in and said that you were doing the Libertarian party injustice.  I consider myself to devout in my Christian beliefs and also pro-life and anti-abortion.  I do however agree with you on the Terri Schiavo case.  This poor child has been basically a vegetable for 15 years.  I agree that the courts, at least not the Supreme Court and definitely not congress should stay out of this.  This is a family matter and that family consists of Michael and Terri Schiavo. R. Armstrong.
   
• Your a fat slob, shut up, and I hope we put you to death, you freak. (No name)
   
• You have lost me as a fan because you are so wrong on Terri Schiavo.  This is the most sadistic, unfair and upsetting case that I have ever seen.  It is making me shamed to be an American, and belive me, I love my country dearly, but I just can't believe my government is doing this. (Rex Hollinger)  Rex is a fan only if I say things he wants to hear.
   
•  I never, EVER agree with you on any topic,but I keep listening just hoping the day will come when you say something that I can agree with. That day came today, as I listened to you talk about Terri Schiavo.  Rob
   
• Dear Spawn of Satan,   I will never listen to your show again! You couldn't be more wrong about Terri's condition, and I'm not surprised you have sided with the Death-o-crats.  Hitler would love you if he were alive today, and if you had it your way, he would be.  You do not believe in God, so stop lying to your audience.  God hates what you stand for, because you always side with the death culture.   Your moral superior,  Bill Webb By the way, Bill has a University of Florida email address.  Hmmmmm.
   
• Preach on, Boortz.  You are dead center on this one.  If that poor girl could see the media feeding frenzy, if she had one brain cell left, she'd sit up in that bed and yank the tube herself.  If the other talk show hosts (Hannity included) cared about anything other than ratings they'd say the same things you are saying and many of us know to be true. J. Wilkes
   
• Shameless Grandstanding was a fitting title for your column since that is what it was. You just wanted to separate yourself from the rest of the talk show hosts. Well you did that. You have lost one devoted fan. So long. John Null 
   
• I strongly agree with your stance on Terri Schiavo. Unfortunately when I made my views known on Free Republic, I received death wishes from the Christian FReepers and was banned as a Troll. I am a Viet Nam veteran and have been registered as a Republican since 1967. I have never in my life voted for a Democrat.  Keep up the good work,  Dave Jackson

I feel so loved.

SHOOTING ON INDIAN RESERVATION

A high school student went on a shooting rampage on an Indian reservation in Minnesota yesterday, killing his grandparents and seven other people before taking the proverbial eternal celestial Indian burial mound nap.  Good riddance...saves a fortune on legal costs, not to mention room and board for the rest of his life. You are immediately seeing the justification phase playing out in the mainstream media.  After all, such a tragedy simply cannot be the work of one evil psychopath, who was reportedly grinning and waving as he mowed down teachers and students.  Already, blame is being placed on:

• Rampant poverty on Indian reservations.  We all know being broke makes you kill people, right?
   
• The guns themselves.  His grandfather was a police officer, and his guns may have been used in the rampage.  Of course, the guns marched up and down the hallways of the school and pulled their own triggers.
   
• Columbine.  Since we are being reminded that this is the worst school shooting since Columbine, obviously it inspired this event.  The media will now spend days reminding us that the nation hasn't "learned from Columbine," whatever that means.

You will hear nothing about this kid's parents, or whether or not he was a troublemaker with discipline problems.  Blame must be assigned elsewhere.  Also, let's just see how long it takes for this shooting to be blamed on the Bush administration.  That, my friends, is a certainty.

BIGGER SECURITY COUNCIL PROPOSED

Kofi Annan has released his report detailing his plans to reform the United Nations.  In a speech to the General Assembly yesterday, Kofi made several proposals.  One is that he wants rich nations like the U.S. to spend .7 percent of their GDP on "official development assistance."  That's a fancy phrase for "international welfare."  Keep in mind that the gross domestic product of the United States is something like $11 trillion a year.  Kofi's little seven-tenths of a percent works out be several billion dollars.  And we're supposed to just hand this money over to the corrupt United Nations?  Right.  They seem to be managing money so well these days...and certainly Kofi's stewardship of the oil-for-food program demonstrates that. How many rapists/peace keepers can you feed, clothe and house with a billion dollars?

Kofi the Korrupt also linked prosperity to the environment...making the nonsensical statement that the depletion of natural resources is somehow bad for business.  Actually, if a nation is using natural resources, that's how you know they're prospering.  Take a look at the African continent.  Is there a continent more rich in natural resources?  Africa has natural resources coming out the whazooo ... but it is still mired in poverty.  If not depleting natural resources is good for business we would all be driving African automobiles and importing African HD televisions.  But capitalism and prosperity is not the goal of the United Nations.  The goal is the creation of a one-world government ... under the auspices of the UN.

And one of Kofi's most ridiculous schemes is his proposal to enlarge the security council.  He wants to expand it from 15 nations to 24, adding countries from Africa, Asia and Latin America.  But the U.N. security council is for nations that provide security, weapons and have a large, ready military.  It is not a seat to be handed out to some tin horn dictator in Africa as political patronage.

Does the United Nations even have a point anymore?

VIDEOTAPED PRISON ABUSE

It is being reported that there is something like 500 hours of videotape in existence of prisoner abuse at the United States terrorist detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.  A lawyer for one of the accused detainees says the tapes are as "explosive as Abu Ghraib."  The government so far is refusing to release the tapes, due to privacy concerns.

If these tapes are released, you can expect it to hit the fan big time.  They will be played over and over and over again, George W. Bush will be accused of abusing the prisoners himself, and Democrats will use it for every political advantage they can find.  The tapes would also be used to smear the entire United States Military, just like the Abu Ghraib photos were.

Hard to believe the videos won't be leaked....if they are, get ready.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

New Jersey Senator John Corzine made a statement comparing Dick Cheney to Saddam Hussein. Except for here, the Drudge Report and a few other places, you will hear nothing about this because it was a Democrat making the comparison.  If it were the other way around, we would never hear the end of it.

The editor of Playgirl magazine has been fired after admitting she was a Republican.  Not to much freedom on thought on the left these days, is there?

The media is in quite a stir about the "record gas prices."  By the way, did you know that we are nowhere near record gas prices?  At least this story admits we're nowhere near the highest ever.

The Hildabeast is proposing the greatest expansion of voter fraud in our nation's history.  Called the "Count Every Vote Act of 2005," it would allow anyone to register to vote on Election Day without a photo ID.  Just the way Democrats like it...the same person could vote as many times as they wanted.

A report says that there are 10 million illegal aliens in the United States.  You won't find one Bush administration official proposing rounding every last one of them up and sending them back.

Larry Kudlow has posted his interview with Vice President Dick Cheney.  Among the topics discussed, the budget and gas prices.

With the two year anniversary in Iraq just having passed, the media is playing up the failures in that country, and ignoring the successes.  By the way, did you know we won the war?  The Media Research Center reports.

President Bush's Social Security reform is on the ropes, thanks to elitist liberals who want to have more control over your retirement than you do.  Star Parker explains.

Does free trade steal jobs from America and put people out of work?  While there may be short-term economic disruption, Jack Kemp makes the case that free trade benefits everyone.

You know that wonderful government health care we hear so much about in Canada from the left?  Well, it turns out things aren't so rosy these days.  They're even sending out letters apologizing if you die before you can get in for treatment.

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Morning Sickness: In Norway, a man was killed when he fell into a sausage grinder. In related news, the FDA allows up to 5 whole insects per 100 grams of apple butter. Ground cinnamon can have up to 11 rodent hairs per 50 grams. See what else is allowed.

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